{"product_id":"textual-and-visual-selves-photography-film-and-comic-art-in-french-autobiography-paperback","title":"Textual and Visual Selves: Photography, Film, and Comic Art in French Autobiography - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNatalie Edwards\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAmy L. Hubbell\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eAnn Miller\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAutobiography in France has taken a decidedly visual turn in recent years: photographs, shown or withheld, become evidence of what was, might have been, or cannot be said; photographers, filmmakers, and cartoonists undertake projects that explore issues of identity. \u003ci\u003eTextual and Visual Selves\u003c\/i\u003e investigates, from a variety of theoretical perspectives, the ways in which the textual and the visual combine in certain French works to reconfigure ideas--and images--of self-representation.\u003cbr\u003eSurprisingly, what these accounts reveal is that photography or film does not necessarily serve to shore up the referentiality of the autobiographical account: on the contrary, the inclusion of visual material can even increase indeterminacy and ambiguity. Far from offering documentary evidence of an extratextual self coincident with the \"I\" of the text, these images testify only to absence, loss, evasiveness, and the desire to avoid objectification. However, where Roland Barthes famously saw the photograph as a prefiguration of death, in this volume we see how the textual strategies deployed by these writers and artists result in work that is ultimately life-affirming.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNatalie Edwards is an assistant professor of French at Wagner College and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThis Self Which Is Not One: Women's Life Writing in French\u003c\/i\u003e. Amy L. Hubbell is an associate professor of French at Kansas State University, lecturer in French at the University of Queensland, and the author of \u003ci\u003eÀ la recherche d'un emploi: Business French in a Communicative Context\u003c\/i\u003e. Ann Miller is a university fellow at the University of Leicester and the author of \u003ci\u003eReading Bande Dessinée: Critical Approaches to French-Language Comic Strip\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52932686610739,"sku":"9780803236318","price":47.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/oo_xdgfJ2D9780803236318.webp?v=1767873188","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/textual-and-visual-selves-photography-film-and-comic-art-in-french-autobiography-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}